Kate McKinnonis taking her comedy to Audible.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did this all begin?
I went to film school.
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Oh boy.MCKINNON:We both watched the same movies.
We had a limited number of VHS cassettes that we watched.
We watchedThe Producersonce a week for five years, on Sundays.
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We memorized them over and over and started to speak to each other in quotes from those movies.
To this day, its a film language that no one can understand.
We speak in code.LYNNE:Our mom encouraged it.
She was very funny.MCKINNON:Our father was very funny as well.
Everyone was doing voices throughout the house.
I think Emily feels the same.LYNNE:I do!
I always was obsessed withMaleficent.
I just always wanted to be Maleficent.
I consider myself something of a nice person.
I dont know why I wanted to be such an evil tyrant.
But thats my deal.LYNNE:It was fun.
We would go to a workspace or either of our apartments.
We just wrote away for hours on end.
It was a blast.MCKINNON:We got help initially from ourSNLfriends.
They pitched all these ideas, and we wrote them up.
You two seem to get along so well.
Its fine.MCKINNON:I was scared.LYNNE:I understand.
The bed bugs were not even in my room.
